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The ACE Certificate in Teaching English for Academic Purposes

The ACE Certificate in Teaching English for Academic Purposes is designed to introduce language instructors to the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to effectively prepare students for success in an English-speaking higher education setting.

This course is recognized by TESL Ontario as a Post TESL Certificate Training (PTCT) course. PTCT is specialized training that enables instructors to further their knowledge and skills in high priority content areas such as materials development, technology in the classroom, language for the workplace, and higher level language training. PTCT is for all instructors who teach English as a second language to adults. For more information, please visit http://www.teslontario.net/PTCT-courses.

Language education professionals can earn CEUs for completing the ACE Certificate in Teaching English for Academic Purposes. The international standard for CEUs is one CEU for every 10 hours of professional development, therefore participants can earn 2.6 CEUs for successfully completing the course. Please note that this is a general guideline and CEU standards may vary from one teaching context to the next. It is your responsibility to check the CEU requirements for your specific teaching context.

Why Choose The ACE Certificate in Teaching English for Academic Purposes?

26+ hours of coursework

Learn ideas, strategies and tools with which to successfully teach the language systems, the langauge skills and the behaviours specific to higher education.

Increase your marketability as a language instructor

Admission requirements

The prerequisite for The ACE Certificate in Teaching English for Academic Purposes is an interest in further expanding knowledge in the area of teaching English for Academic Purposes. Must be a qualified and currently practicing English language teacher to enroll.

Course Content

The ACE Certificate in Teaching Culture covers the following subject areas:

Understanding English for Academic Purposes

Teaching Academic Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing Skills

Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

Teaching Academic Research and Citation Skills

Teaching Quoting Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Teaching Academic Grammar

Teaching Academic Vocabulary

Teaching Academic Behaviours

Assessment Tasks and Tools

Finding and Evaluating Materials and Resources

Assessments

Students will complete a Task Journal for each of the 13 course modules and submit them on an ongoing basis to their instructor for feedback and assessment. The instructor will assess the students' understanding of each module based on the correctness and completeness of their responses in the Task Journals. Tasks provide students with the opportunity to put course concepts into practice through research, analysis, evaluation and lesson planning. Tasks include answering discussion and short answer questions, and completing short curriculum design tasks. The Task Journals comprise 100% of the final grade.

Course Instructor

Heather Perry has always been interested in language teaching as she is a first generation Canadian born of immigrant parents. Her growing up years were filled with stories of the difficulties and humour that her parents, their siblings and grandparents had in communication. She has been an English language practitioner (accredited ATESL and Canada TESL) for the last 12 years specializing in language assessment, teacher training and language instruction. Heather has taught the ACE foundational Teacher Training course in China, at the University of Regina, Red Deer College and Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta. Heather has also been involved with the course development and implementation of an online English language learning program in Dubai and Kuwait. Her teaching experiences spans the range of early beginners in an evening class to workplace communication skills with oil and gas employees, engineers and day care workers. She has developed extensive curriculum for temporary foreign workers to assist with the Employment Readiness course taught at Red Deer College.

To Register

This course is offered online through our partner, London Language Institute, London, Ontario. The price is $410 CAD. The next course start date is September 15th, 2017.